I came home to naked orange trees and badly....

[mpete]

Pruned rose bushes.... guess I forgot to close the gate to the goats

[Sherry in Iowa]

Oh my gosh..the little rascals. Will the plants/trees recover? Luckily I saw Lucille open the gate latch yesterday..I was milking the other one at the time. They are just like kids, aren't they?

[arnie]

Being a single homsteder with plenty of brushy land and poor fenceing I considered a dairy goat but reality reminded me they would be in the garden,or worse cross the ridge with its barbed wire fence into a neabours garden or rail road tracks.and lucked into a great gentle dairy cow .and get a wonderful beef calf to fill the fresser .keeping a goat in total confinement would have been the only recorse for me with fruit trees haphazerdly growing about .pretty is as pretty do'es a quiet shiney brown swiss grazeing behind a few strands of barbed wire ,with a free beef bull to use fit much better than a crew of goats :-) :-) .

[where I want to]

Well- goats with sweet breath for 5 seconds.
Luckily it's time to prune roses anyway- can you even out the hair cut?
And if they did not nuke the orange it will recover too. But no winter oranges for you this year.
My real worry if that happens (not yet so far) is that the little (dears) now know where the goodies are. It will prey on their little minds- "need rose leaves- need orange leave- must get!." And they will try to find their way back to nirvana.

The one serious foray my goats made into my garden, they all got hung up on the blueberries and strawberries, allowing me to drag their plump rears back through the gate one by one before they found the fruit trees.

[mpete]

I am still laughing about it, especially when I went out this morning and found that they even ate all the baby oranges as well... I know my does are not vitamin c deficient now!